Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-01-28


BILLIARD ball is the latest English
variation of dance, it seems, and very
pretty variation it is. The ladies wear
either black, white or red, and the seats
next the walls are cushioned with green
which makes good background for
them. The floor is marked out with balk
lines and spots, and the pockets are
nooks big enough to hold two chairs. All
possible punning illusions to the game
are made in costume and decorations,
and an ingenious host can really enter
tain his guests by his cleverness. The
Royal Corinthian Yacht Club has tho
credit of planning this devise.
TnE Swiss people appreciate the value
of their natural scenery in attracting the
foreigner. A short time ago it was an
nounced that manufacturers were making
arrangements to construct hugo dam,
by means of which they hoped to subsi-
diZa the Rhine to degree of fifteen
thousand horsepower for the service of
their factories. The government of the
place Immediately forbade the scheme ON
tho plea of beauty and business, and an
other, though smaller, niagara was saved.
THE newspapers have been warning the
baggageman these many years that he
would throw one trunk too many some
day, and now he has done it. As n train
was about to leave PIttsburg the baggage
smasher seized n snlall trunk which had
Just been put aboard. IL WAS light and
easy to handle. Bracing himself he threw
il the entire length of the car on top of a
stack of similar receptacles. AS 1t struck
there was an explosion, the roof OF the
car flew Off, and the bnggageman fell
stunned by the conclusion. Tho suppo-
sition il that the trunk contained dyna-
mite, but there is no telling. When the
baggageman returns to his post he will
go on tho theory that all trunks contain
explosives, and the railroad for which he
works will presently have so great n rush
of business that it may find it necessary
To increase it's dividends.
1HE census of France, just published,
shows the population to be 3S,2lS,OOo,
whereas i'll December, 1881, it was 81,
772,oo0. This gives 40 increase of 446,
600, whereas in 1881 the increase in five
complete year, was 10000. In Paris
the increase Ia only $4,000, namely, from
2.2G9,Ooo TO 2.244 600, whereas the last
time it was $50, 900. Lyon. has the much
larger proportionate increase of 25,000,
namely, from $4,000 to 4Ol, 900. Mar
settles has increased from 100000 to
$4,000. Bordeaux from 22l 900 to 240,-
600, Lille from l7S.OOO TO 5000 Nice
from $4,000 to 1900 Roubiax has in
creased by 5000, and Toulouse and Tours
each by 1000. The other large towns,
within the exception of st, EtiSnne, which
has fallen from 123,Oc0 to I17,OOO, show
an increase in no case exceeding 5000.
The fifty three cities or towns having
more than 10000, Paris included, show
net increase of 100000. Fifty-eight de
partments are increasing and twenty
nine decreasing. In 1881 the respective
numbers were fifty-three and thirty-four.
As for She net increase of $4,000, it is
pointed out that the excess of births
over deaths in the four years was 396,-
600, 40 that the remaining 10000 may
be attributed to the influx of foreigner,
without reckoning the quota furnished
by the existing foreign population to that
excess of births over deaths.